Top 100 Quotes About Reacting
#1. Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.
Bill Johnson
#2. I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban.
Jonathan Gottschall
#3. The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
Martin Van Creveld
#4. You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.
Ned Overend
#5. When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.
Connie Sellecca
#6. That language is demonstrably stereotypical -- in either the Bible or the modern Mediterranean cultures -- is not the same thing as saying that a language is demonstrably fraudulent -- or that it is language that is not reacting to real trauma. (p. 103)
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
#8. Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.
Anthony Hopkins
#9. You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.
Rajneesh
#10. I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
Gavin Bryars
#11. was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means "Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.
Tina Fey
#12. You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive.
Michael Hyatt
#13. If the truth scares you, know that it is your guilty conscience reacting to Truth.
Billy Graham
#15. When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offence. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and reacting.
Steve Hagen
#16. You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the negativity.
Rhonda Byrne
#17. To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
Kamala Harris
#18. I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.
Scott Aukerman
#19. The type of librarians who are thriving most consistently in the digital era are those who have found a way to operate as a node in a network of libraries and librarians. They are agents of change, actively creating the future instead of constantly reacting to it -
John Palfrey
#20. This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.
Jason Giambi
#21. Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.
Eileen O'Brien
#22. The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.
Val Kilmer
#23. The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
Nicolas Roeg
#24. If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.
Stanley Sarnoff
#25. You need to let go of everything you can't control. Anything that's already happened, anything you're afraid might or might not happen - you can't control any of that. You can only control how you react to it. And how you're reacting right now,
Christy Beam
#26. There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?
Frank Herbert
#27. A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.
Shailene Woodley
#28. When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.
Dan Harris
#29. You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.
Pete Cashmore
#30. Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
Antonio Damasio
#31. Plato laid down the principle that it is impossible to look at something ugly without taking something of it into the soul, and it is equally impossible to be in contact with what is beautiful without reacting to it.
William McGuire
#32. I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.
Peter Hollingworth
#33. Reacting to others and then blaming them for the way you handled yourself
Amy Morin
#34. The process of living is the process of reacting to stress.
Stanley Sarnoff
#35. Dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#36. One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#37. His presence made me feel self-concious: of my appearance, of the way I was sitting, of my movements and gestures ... It was the behavior of a woman reacting to a man who attracts her.
Alice Steinbach
#38. Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential ... by reacting without reflecting.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#39. Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
Bill Simmons
#40. To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
Carlos Ghosn
#41. I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
Dallas Roberts
#42. I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
Barrett Foa
#43. To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
Christina Baldwin
#44. I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women.
Susan Isaacs
#45. All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market
Nick Murray
#46. Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
Gerald Brenan
#47. I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.
Julia Stiles
#48. We all have an eraser incorporated within us, a delete key, but we forget how to use it. Ho'oponopono helps us to remember the power that we have to choose between erasing (letting go) or reacting, being happy or suffering. It is only a matter of choice in every moment of our lives.
Mabel Katz
#49. To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
Maya Lin
#50. See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.
Maxwell Maltz
#51. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, shows an angry-looking tyrannosaurus reacting with horror to the impact.)
Elizabeth Kolbert
#52. Life is presenting every person and circumstance to you so you can choose what you love and what you don't love. When you react to anything, you are reacting with your feelings, and as you do so, you are choosing it.
Rhonda Byrne
#53. Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.
Ben Casnocha
#54. There's an unspoken language when Gus and I play together. It's always been that way. We hear and feel music the same way. Communication flows back and forth through the music, one reacting to and feeding off the other. Words are spoken with eyes and subtle nods.
Kim Holden
#55. When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.
Jeff Davidson
#56. When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.
Slim Moon
#57. By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.
Steve Maraboli
#58. To resist evil is to stand firm against the wrong committed without reacting to the wrong-doer!
Evinda Lepins
#59. The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is the role of Congress to debate and authorize this before the President acts precipitously.
Joe Pitts
#60. Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton
#61. I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
Tina Fey
#63. With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.
Rafi Fine
#64. The meek shall indeed inherit the earth. They have the power to act rationally instead of reacting emotionally.
David M. Butcher
#65. Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
Tara Brach
#66. We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
Richard Rohr
#67. Some things just feel so intense. I'm not
over reacting. My sensory processing
is unique to me.
Tina J. Richardson
#68. I can't apologize for reacting the way I did, but I can guarantee you it will happen again. You seem to have the knack for getting under my skin like no one else.
Maya Banks
#69. You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and organic. Even 20 years later, it's the same thing. You may be even better on your instrument. Hopefully, you are.
Andy Summers
#70. I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.
Lisa Wingate
#71. You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."
Sandra Bullock
#72. To escape responsibility for violence we imagine it is enough to pledge never to be the first to do violence. But no one ever sees himself as casting the first stone. Even the most violent persons believe that they are always reacting to a violence committed in the first instance by someone else.
Rene Girard
#73. When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.
Eckhart Tolle
#74. Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.
Jim Evans
#75. Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too.
Tom Bergeron
#76. God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
J.I. Packer
#77. When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
Sissy Spacek
#78. Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
Michael Caine
#79. I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.
Condoleezza Rice
#80. By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.
Kyriacos C. Markides
#81. When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys.
George Stevens Jr.
#82. Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.
Martin Freeman
#83. I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.
Natalie Maines
#84. You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
Navid Negahban
#85. Real-time marketing is already too late. Brands should focus on sparking conversation, not constantly reacting.
David Berkowitz
#86. You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.
John Francis Daley
#87. When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#88. If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.
Kenneth Wapnick
#89. If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.
Bryant McGill
#90. The key to any lasting contentment is learning to see and accept reality for what it is and then acting skillfully, rather than reacting when reality fails to conform to our expectations.
Bhava Ram
#91. Nipples are little beasts, always reacting to everything, especially when you'd rather they be discreet. There's a reason titillation starts with the word tit.
Kylie Scott
#92. Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
Jewel
#93. You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.
Ann Romney
#94. When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
Abraham Maslow
#95. I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful.
Emma Stone
#96. The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.
Enrico Fermi
#97. Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.
Robert Englund
#98. It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me.
Elaine Stritch
#99. Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.
Craig Groeschel
#100. Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?
Zig Ziglar
